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One hundred and fifty aeronautical companies have at least one factory in Morocco, for an annual turnover of 2.5 billion euros, said the Minister of Industry and Trade, Ryad Mezzour.
The activities of these companies generate 26,000 full -time jobs, mainly around Casablanca, Tangier, Rabat and Fès, said the minister in an interview with the French daily “Le Point”, on the sidelines of the Biannual International Biannual Salon (Paris Air Show), which is held until Sunday at Le Bourget airport with a remarkable Moroccan participation.
The Minister said that these companies generate an annual turnover of 2.5 billion euros achieved mainly in the production of fuselages, structural elements, interior fittings and cables.
In addition, Mr. Mezzour returned to the partnership between Royal Air Maroc (RAM) and the French company Safran concerning the CFM reactor, recalling that during the visit to Morocco of French President Emmanuel Macron last October, an agreement was signed extending the partnership with the new generation CFM-Leap engine.
Morocco offers all the resources to treat this high-tech equipment, forming 23,000 engineers each year, 400 of which are heading for the aeronautical industry, he said, also reporting on competitive production costs at 25 euros per hour, compared to 100 to 120 euros in Europe or the United States.
“We will expand our offer to the development of cabins, the manufacture of landing trains and think we can offer by ten years a final assembly line of commercial aircraft,” continued the minister, who thinks that the turnover of the sector can double by 2030.
Mr. Mezzour announced, moreover, that a study is underway for an order of aircraft by Royal Air Maroc, noting that the company is interested in the Airbus A220, this small medium-haul which corresponds well to the European RAM network.
The author of the article pointed out that the Paris Air Show show started on wheels for the kingdom with a major contract with Boeing, which has taken a new stage in its investment strategy in Morocco.
A partnership agreement was signed with Casablanca Aeronautique, a subsidiary of the French group Figeac Aero, for the production of machined structural parts for the 737 Max program, he reported.
This commitment, which is a continuation of the memorandum of understanding signed in 2016 between Boeing and the Moroccan authorities, marks the desire of the aircraft manufacturer to strengthen the Moroccan industrial basis and to anchor its supply chains in the kingdom, he concluded.
